Capretta, Tanden spar over Obamacare 'redistribution'

12/1/13 9:22 AM EST

Health care experts from both sides of the spectrum traded barbs on "Fox News Sunday" over the health care law's troubled rollout.

"If you think about it, it's $250 billion a year in Medicaid expansion and the subsidy structure that's basically being paid for by people on Medicare and Medicare cuts," said James Capretta, a senior fellow at the conservative Ethics & Public Policy Center. "It's income redistribution."

"People are getting insurance notices that they've lost coverage, but there are other insurance plans available to them," said Neera Tanden, president of the liberal Center for American Progress said. "What we're not seeing in these data are how many people will be better off."

"The real test of HealthCare.gov is whether you make the right payment to the right people on the right insurance plan," Capretta said. "So, they're working around the whole problem instead of solving it."

The two panelists briefly interrupted each other when discussing comparisons between Obamacare and Capretta's health care law proposal